Cultural Blockbusters Team Brings 'Break Through Success Talk' to Yaktivate.com

A new podcast on Yaktivate.com, Break Through Success Talk, helps people recognize and deal with the cultural, emotional, financial blocks that keep them from being a success. Hosts are Dr. Jo Ann Pina and Judith Parker Harris who have each overcome their own stumbling blocks, cancer and multiple sclerosis. Using the language of movies, their podcast shows how others can do the same.

Redondo Beach, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2008 -- A refreshing, new podcast, 'Break Through Success Talk', brings listeners success strategies to find, manage and create the stories in their lives and businesses that deliver powerful results. Break Through Success Talk is created and hosted by the Cultural Blockbusters team, Dr. Jo Ann Piña and Judith Parker Harris. They specialize in bringing the story telling magic of the movies to the workplace as a problem solving, breakthrough tool.

"Everybody in a business culture has a story," explains Harris who besides being an author, speaker and corporate consultant is also a film producer. "Employees, managers, customers, vendors, colleagues and friends…all have stories." She challenges businesses and listeners to discover what they are. "Otherwise," she warns, "your stories may be working against you instead of for you."

The 'Break Through Success Talk' podcast works with you to find what's blocking your success (limiting beliefs or dividing thoughts) within your stories. Dr. Piña contends "It's often our conversations--with our self and others--about needs, circumstances, situations, demands, beliefs, etc. that make up our stories." Once identified you can either use the stories to your advantage or bust through the blocks they contain and replace them with success talk--empowering beliefs which support you to improve communication, productivity and leadership effectiveness and even breakthrough to new markets.

Consider this: blocks cost millions and come in all shapes, sizes and forms including…cultural, financial, gender, perceptual, personal, relationship, sales, success and organizational. "Now think about how stories permeate the workplace," Piña posits, "they can keep co-workers from forming a team, managers from communicating to their staff, departments from working toward the same goals, divisions from pulling in the same direction, and individuals cut off from the very corporate culture they are expected to espouse." Dr. Piña also emphasizes the impact limiting beliefs have on your personal success whether it's financial freedom or relationships.

In every show Piña and Harris deal with a story, a block and the way business leaders and professionals have broken through to success--by sticking to the story, the whole story and nothing but the true story in any and all relationships.

A cross-culture expert and faculty member of John Hopkins University Leadership Development Program, Dr. Piña finds the language of the movies shortcuts people into finding their blocks without having to engage in as much emotional soul searching. "They just get it, and even better, they begin sharing their stories in a non-threatening, breakthrough way."

The two partners came together because they had used their own block breaking techniques to overcome serious illness; cancer for Dr. Piña and multiple sclerosis for Harris. Once healthy again, they created a new and more satisfying direction for their lives. Now they urge others to "embrace differences that ignite powerful performance," and they show them how to do it with the Break Though Success Talk podcast. They also have an experiential e-book where two free chapters may be downloaded- www.BreakingThroughBlocks.com.

It all comes down to one question, 'Is there something in your life or business that, if not arrested or destroyed, could threaten to envelop your hopes and dreams?' They believe that the answers, no matter how diverse, come from the stories in our lives - the mini-movies of our daily existence.

You can download episodes of Break Through Success Talk on www.aliveauthorsnetwork.com, one of many channels on Yaktivate.com. Yaktivate.com is a global media network and marketing organization that features podcast shows on channels that reflect a wide range of topics- from business strategies to women empowerment to breaking through blocks and beyond. Yaktivate.com is always on the lookout for new podcasting talent and, for businesses that are seeking an effective and cost-effective manner to reach their niche marketing audience.

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